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We Find Sects And Parties In Most Branches Of Science; And Disputes Which Are Carried On From Age To Age, Without Being Brought To An Issue. Sophistry Has Been More Effectually Excluded From Mathematics And Natural Philosophy Than From Other Sciences. In Mathematics It Had No Place From The Beginning; Mathematicians Having Had The Wisdom To Define Accurately The Terms They Use, And To Lay Down, As Axioms, The First Principles On Which Their Reasoning Is Grounded. Accordingly, We Find No Parties Among Mathematicians, And Hardly Any Disputes.

In Every Chain Of Reasoning, The Evidence Of The Last Conclusion Can Be No Greater Than That Of The Weakest Link Of The Chain, Whatever May Be The Strength Of The Rest.

A Philosopher Is, No Doubt, Entitled To Examine Even Those Distinctions That Are To Be Found In The Structure Of All Languages... In That Case, Such A Distinction May Be Imputed To A Vulgar Error, Which Ought To Be Corrected In Philosophy.

I Sit In My Loft With The Haves And Look Out At The Have-nots - The Bottom Of The Bottom - And I Have To Rationalize It, ... Am I Pushing Out The Homeless?

It Is Natural To Men To Judge Of Things Less Known, By Some Similitude They Observe, Or Think They Observe, Between Them And Things More Familiar Or Better Known. In Many Cases, We Have No Better Way Of Judging. And, Where The Things Compared Have Really A Great Similitude In Their Nature, When There Is Reason To Think That They Are Subject To The Same Laws, There May Be A Considerable Degree Of Probability In Conclusions Drawn From Analogy.